I've been here long enough, I can start one post game thread. Not enough lumber for the Sox tonight.

BTW, any of us who think that Hawks is too much of a homer need to endure the clowns that do the Nats home broadcast.

Listening to F.P Santangelo is like having John Gruden broadcast your games. It was raining superlatives.

__________________It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. - A. Bartlett Giamatti

Left too many men on base, and Viciedo is starting to remind me of Juan Uribe and his stupid hacks.

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"I give you five minutes when we get there. Anything happens in that five minutes and I'm yours. No matter what. Anything a minute on either side of that and you're on your own. I don't sit in while you're running it down. I don't carry a gun. I drive."

Also forgot to mention another concern, not only the RISP factor but the club is making errors at a bad, bad pace. 8th error tonight in seven games. Maybe it was the cold the first week but this was a very good defensive team last season...not so much right now.

I see that Robin Ventura hasn't learned his Matt Thornton lesson from 2012.

If we're going to earn a playoff berth it's not going to be by much. Thornton should not pitch in any game that's still close. We had a shot at rallying in the ninth with the top of the order coming up. You do not bring in Thornton down two in the bottom of the eighth. You just don't do it. If you think bringing in Thornton is the thing to do in that situation, then we have a problem. And I think we have a problem. Thornton lost 10 games out of the bullpen last year. It's like Ventura never saw that happen.

It's time to stop the Thornton nonsense now. His pitches don't move and he doesn't change speeds. He's going to continue to get hit.